The One Habit That Will Singlehandedly Transform Your Life
Why Journaling is the most powerful habit you could have, and how to establish it.
“Dear diary…”
That’s what most of us imagine when they hear “journaling”: a teenage girl confessing her celebrity crushes to her diary, at least according to my female friends. High school boys, mean girlfriends and struggle with identity are the favorite topics.
I also keep a journal. There’s only one striking difference: I’m a 26 year old male, and I rarely have celebrity crushes.
I journal because I believe it’s the single most powerful habit a person can have.
In the Tim Ferriss Show, the host of the same name deconstructs the habits and routines of highly successful people from all sorts of fields — scientists, athletes, politicians, entrepreneurs, CEOs, firefighters, authors and so on. In the early episodes, a book called the “5 minute journal” came up over and over again.
“Fuck it”, I figured. “If all these people are doing it, I might as well do it.”
The 5-minute-journal consists of five different prompts, three for the morning and two for the evening. I’ve played around with it for a while, but I really don’t like it.
